Category: Property

Property / Shopping Centres / Woolworths

November 20, 2009

Whitley Bay’s “upward trend in retail shopping”

Anyone who follows my blog posts will see how frequently I draw from the great resource that is local newspaper websites. With the downturn affecting...

Co-operatives / Department Stores / Property / Retail History

November 18, 2009

Photos from the 90s – Sheffield’s Castle House Co-op department store

I’ve been sorting through some of my old photos recently – for old, read ‘1990s’. Very few of them have much interest from a retail...

Property / Supermarkets / Woolworths

October 13, 2009

Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 1)

Though I can’t claim to make a habit of visiting six old Woolies stores in the same day (including Houghton-le-Spring, above), I have managed to build up...

Market Towns / Property / Retail History / Supermarkets

October 7, 2009

Durham – a rare blip in the Waitrose success story

By and large, Waitrose is very much in the habit of opening stores, rather than closing them – so went wrong with Waitrose’s now-closed Durham branch?

Millets in Newcastle, prior to closure (6 Oct 2009). Photograph by Graham Soult

Outdoor Leisure / Property

October 6, 2009

Newcastle’s Millets among the 89 stores to be closed

Yesterday I commented on the fact that the Millets store at MetroCentre was having a closing down sale; today, I noticed that the branch in...

Customer Service / Property / Shopping Centres / Woolworths

October 5, 2009

Some observations from visiting MetroCentre today

I popped over to MetroCentre this afternoon, and spotted a few things that seemed worthy of blogging about. Millets: Following on from my post last...

Department Stores / Fashion Stores / Online / Outdoor Leisure / Property

September 30, 2009

A busy day for retail – M&S, Blacks, and giving GIVe a look

Today’s retail news has arguably been dominated by Marks and Spencer revealing better than expected results, and Blacks Leisure (owner of Millets, as well as its...

Fashion Stores / Online / Property

September 29, 2009

Nice Tucci you again

Wandering along Newcastle’s Grainger Street yesterday afternoon, I was quite surprised to see that the old Tucci fashion store – which closed down probably several...

Fashion Stores / Property

September 29, 2009

Is Apple Store coming to Newcastle’s Eldon Square?

It certainly looks like it, according to the latest, publically available version of the Eldon Square South letting plan.[broken link removed] What’s more, it also appears...

Former Woolworths, Redcar (17 Sep 2009). Photograph by Graham Soult

Property / Woolworths

September 18, 2009

How many former Woolworths can Graham visit in one day?

How about SIX? Stop one is High Street in Redcar, where the former Woolworths store has recently become a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company....

Independent Stores / Property / Retail History

August 28, 2009

A little bit of Newcastle retail history uncovered

Walking through Newcastle’s Bigg Market area last Sunday, I was interested to see that part of the William Hill bookmaker’s fascia appeared to have dropped off,...

Property

August 26, 2009

Not what I had in mind for the old Newcastle Zavvi store…

When I remarked a couple of weeks ago that Newcastle’s “Monument Mall would surely welcome the arrival of a strong anchor store” following the closure...

Brands / Co-operatives / Department Stores / Property

August 13, 2009

Vergo rebranding riddle continues

Regular readers may recall my post from last month, where I queried how the former East of England Co-op department stores might be rebranded following their takeover...

Independent Stores / Property

August 13, 2009

Wellington Square ‘win a shop’ competition looks to nurture new retail talent

With Britain’s high streets having to work hard to survive – let alone thrive – in the current downturn, I was pleased to read about an initiative here...